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they are the ones doing the public posturing for him. >> i think also that john boehner does not have a strong hand. he has got a caucus that has dug in its heels on any kind of compromise. i saw this picture of john boehner, this cartoon character, holding a football and saying to president obama "trust me." >> there was an election on november 6 and the democrats did not do that badly. who is here? >> everybody has got to give. >> it really is true. you cannot tax your way out of this debt, you cannot slash expenses and get out of this in debt. you have got to do both. >> somewhat gradually. >> the president seems to be offering a two-for-one deal -- for every $1 of tax increase, he will cut expenses by $2. simpson-bowles wanted a one-to-3 ratio. the republicans want zero. >> but they have the business community that does not want us to go for the cliff -- >> if you use a different language, are there republicans amenable to an increase in taxes -- >> use the word "revenue." >> nancy pelosi took the position, a good negotiating position, that it ought to be $1 million to hundred $50
they are the ones doing the public posturing for him. >> i think also that john boehner does not have a strong hand. he has got a caucus that has dug in its heels on any kind of compromise. i saw this picture of john boehner, this cartoon character, holding a football and saying to president obama "trust me." >> there was an election on november 6 and the democrats did not do that badly. who is here? >> everybody has got to give. >> it really is true. you...
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house speaker john boehner, is he in a tough spot? >> he is, but less about tough job on friday that he was on a thursday because that tea party rally on the capital, a grand total of 200 people showed up. the muscle that they promised to deliver and the threats that they have delivered to primary john boehner is seen a lot more hollow that they did last year. he has got a tough job. basically, that republicans want to unveil their 2012 budget next week, and to do so, they cannot do it if the government is closing down. paul ryan is their star and they have touted him like he is the second coming, and they have got to have the stage set for him and it cannot include the curtain coming down on the government and social security checks being held in the mail. >> he is right, but i want to correct your intro where he said the tea party wanted big, big cuts. the big cuts are $30 billion in addition to what the democrats what. -- want. the budget for this year -- 750,000 -- billion dollars -- the point is, it is minuscule, and it is insane
house speaker john boehner, is he in a tough spot? >> he is, but less about tough job on friday that he was on a thursday because that tea party rally on the capital, a grand total of 200 people showed up. the muscle that they promised to deliver and the threats that they have delivered to primary john boehner is seen a lot more hollow that they did last year. he has got a tough job. basically, that republicans want to unveil their 2012 budget next week, and to do so, they cannot do it if...
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his plan b died. >> let me be clear, speaker boehner's plans are nonstarters in the senate. >> boehner appeared on friday morning and said, if this thing were easy, it would have been done decades ago. >> i am interested in solving the major problems that face our country. that means house leaders, senate leaders, and the president, are going to continue to have to work together to address those concerns. >> the president has lifted his number to 400,000, no tax hikes for anyone making more than a million. boehner wants tax hikes for those making more than 1 million. done decades ago. what happened? >> he did not have the votes, as simple as that. he had to pull back. his own caucus let him down. he thought he could get the 218 votes he needed from his caucus and they were not there. >> are we going over the cliff? >> there is a chance we could avert that. boehner's statement on friday morning suggests that he was still willing to work with the president to come up with something. the outcome is likely to be that the fringes on both parties will have to be forgotten and they will have
his plan b died. >> let me be clear, speaker boehner's plans are nonstarters in the senate. >> boehner appeared on friday morning and said, if this thing were easy, it would have been done decades ago. >> i am interested in solving the major problems that face our country. that means house leaders, senate leaders, and the president, are going to continue to have to work together to address those concerns. >> the president has lifted his number to 400,000, no tax hikes...
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and so i think that's a problem for boehner too. not just the freshman, but also the older members who are trying to take advantage of the situation. >> woodruff: and meanwhile the president, or i should say the democratses are getting some heat from the left. they're saying the white house, the democrats have maybe give then too much already. >> the explanation you get from the white house is that the president was seen, as too intimately and personally and completely involved in the legislative process the first two years. and so they have distanced him from this. and there is this grumbling. a, that they have given am too much too soon on the cuts that were talked about. and that the president himself is not personally sophed. it's not simply mike pence and some of the others, newt gingrich, of recent and fond memory, and presidential ambitions, appeared before the house republicans yesterday and urged them to be even tougher. i'm sure john boehner must have been thrilled by that appearance. >> woodruff: well, we are going to hav
and so i think that's a problem for boehner too. not just the freshman, but also the older members who are trying to take advantage of the situation. >> woodruff: and meanwhile the president, or i should say the democratses are getting some heat from the left. they're saying the white house, the democrats have maybe give then too much already. >> the explanation you get from the white house is that the president was seen, as too intimately and personally and completely involved in...
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now that same coalition is called foreign entities by john boehner in his letter to the president. >> absolutely. >> democrats do tend to care more about getting the u.n. security council or nato, the traditional institutions, so, yeah, there is a difference there. where the bush administration did consult with other countries, they were happy to get as many volunteers into iraq and afghanistan as they could, but there was no question who was in charge. the other point, and this goes to gloria's question, president obama and most of the american public don't want to pay for every one of these police actions from here on out. if you don't want to pay for this thing, you have to let somebody else in the room when it's the sided on. if we don't want -- when it's decided on. if we don't want to pay for it, we have to get used to it. >> if we're not paying for it, we don't call the shots. >> this whole notion of us not being in charge, i think that's a bit overstated. >> so we are? >> of course we're in charge. from the time we started, president obama got out there and said, announced the
now that same coalition is called foreign entities by john boehner in his letter to the president. >> absolutely. >> democrats do tend to care more about getting the u.n. security council or nato, the traditional institutions, so, yeah, there is a difference there. where the bush administration did consult with other countries, they were happy to get as many volunteers into iraq and afghanistan as they could, but there was no question who was in charge. the other point, and this...
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boehner. is it any different, or is this just about, i don't know, smoke and mirrors? >> well, i think the atmosphere is certainly different as you mentioned. in the past, these guys would go back to capitol hill and put out competing statements about what went on during the meetings. you saw what happened last year during the debt ceiling negotiations. this time it was one big happy family. there certainly seems to be some sort of recognition on the part of how fed up american people with sort of the seeing this game of chicken being played at such a high stakes time. i think there is certainly, after this election, there is kind of a let's get down to business. let's see if we can get this thing done. whether that can translate -- david just said, the biggest sticking point, taxes on the wealthy is still on the table. you can sing happy birthday to john boehner as much as you want. gwen: he would still say no. >> absolutely. i think it's really premature to try to predict what is going to ha
boehner. is it any different, or is this just about, i don't know, smoke and mirrors? >> well, i think the atmosphere is certainly different as you mentioned. in the past, these guys would go back to capitol hill and put out competing statements about what went on during the meetings. you saw what happened last year during the debt ceiling negotiations. this time it was one big happy family. there certainly seems to be some sort of recognition on the part of how fed up american people...
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some democrats think that mitch mcconnell is ready to force john boehner's hand. we know the republicans are going to lose the fight of taxes because tax rates are going to go up for every -- the only question is how many people they go up for. so if you already know what the outcome is going to be, the question is how much punishment do they want to take? it is possible that they would wait after january 1. they could say we're going to cut taxes now instead of vote to allow them to go up. gwen: let's move on. because there's one more thing we want to go to. from iran to syria to libya to egypt to israeli, palestinian standoff over gaza, the obama administration's wishes have seldom been.raedpt >> we and the world haveed join in condemning the brutality of the assad regime. >> no one wants to determine what happened that night in benghazi more than the president and i do. >> and this administration has either been guilty of colossal incompetence or engaged in a coverup. >> a red line should be drawn right here. before iran completes the second stage of nuclear en
some democrats think that mitch mcconnell is ready to force john boehner's hand. we know the republicans are going to lose the fight of taxes because tax rates are going to go up for every -- the only question is how many people they go up for. so if you already know what the outcome is going to be, the question is how much punishment do they want to take? it is possible that they would wait after january 1. they could say we're going to cut taxes now instead of vote to allow them to go up....
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to abide in periodically took out a pen and took notes. -- biden took out a pen and took notes. >> boehner has an uncomfortable job. >> he missed an opportunity a couple of years ago, with the brouhaha with the supreme court, to say, "i will ask you not to stand up." if we eliminated that, for one thing, it would be over in 40 minutes. i think it has been an artificial up and down, and downed. with sequestration, we are talking about real hits. we're talking about headstart, the most disadvantaged of kids, being cut. women and children on the low end, healthcare plans being cut. this is serious stuff. >> i would like to improve on mark's suggestion about state of the union, that we go all the way back to jefferson, who abolished its delivery and he did it in writing, until woodrow wilson -- for 100 years it was like a piece of paper, which is what it should be. wilson, of course, who did not have a lot of use for our constitution, made it into a theatrical event. [laughter] >> blocking chuck hagel. >> not a single nominee for secretary of defense in the history of our nation has ever been
to abide in periodically took out a pen and took notes. -- biden took out a pen and took notes. >> boehner has an uncomfortable job. >> he missed an opportunity a couple of years ago, with the brouhaha with the supreme court, to say, "i will ask you not to stand up." if we eliminated that, for one thing, it would be over in 40 minutes. i think it has been an artificial up and down, and downed. with sequestration, we are talking about real hits. we're talking about...
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so i think it's been happening at the level of leader reid, speaker boehner and now speaker boehner is planning to move it through the house with the support of his conference. >> ifill: we have heard today that the phones were jammed at the capitol with people in your constituents calling in. is that what you're hearing from your members as well? >> i think's a high level of expectation on the part of the american public that their leaders come together and solve two things: one is make sure the obligations are met and that we don't go into any sort of tail spin as a result of this. but as importantly, make sure that the debt ceiling isn't raised just willy-nilly with no pro-conditions. and i think if there's a thoughtful way forward-- and that, i would submit, is the boehner plan-- that accomplishes those two things i think most americans can get their heads around that and feel a high level of confidence. which is why i think it's interesting when you were interviewing the white house representative, he very carefully didn't they the president would veto the bill. and i think they o
so i think it's been happening at the level of leader reid, speaker boehner and now speaker boehner is planning to move it through the house with the support of his conference. >> ifill: we have heard today that the phones were jammed at the capitol with people in your constituents calling in. is that what you're hearing from your members as well? >> i think's a high level of expectation on the part of the american public that their leaders come together and solve two things: one is...
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because there is seemingly no movement and no discussion between president obama and house speaker boehner over the reopening of the government and averting a federal default in nine days time. here is how the president characterized the stakes in the press room this afternoon. >> a decision to actually go through with it, to actually permit default, according to many ceos and economists would be insane, catastrophic, chaos, these are some of the more polite words. warren buffett compared to the a nuclear bomb, a weapon too horrible to use. it would undermine the confidence at the bedrock of the global economy. >> later house speaker john boehner had this to say in response. >> there is going to be a negotiation here. we can't raise the dt ceiling without doing something about what is driving us to borrow more money and to live beyond our means. the idea that we should continue to spend money that we don't have and give the bill to our kids and grandkids would be wrong. >> on wall street some of the biggest gainers so far this year, technology, biotech stocks became the biggest losers toda
because there is seemingly no movement and no discussion between president obama and house speaker boehner over the reopening of the government and averting a federal default in nine days time. here is how the president characterized the stakes in the press room this afternoon. >> a decision to actually go through with it, to actually permit default, according to many ceos and economists would be insane, catastrophic, chaos, these are some of the more polite words. warren buffett compared...
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. >> house speaker john boehner in an exclusive interview with jonathan karl of abc news. do you think he is right, colby? >> $6 a gallon will hurt any elected official in the city, not just to the president. but these things fluctuate and reflected the conditions of the world. >> boehner also told to jonathan karl that maybe it is time to look at subsidies for oil companies. paul ryan said he agrees. i wonder if they will get in hot water for this, mark. >> no, i don't think they will, because oil companies are pretty damn unpopular right now. john boehner is right, at $6 a gallon, you don't want to be eighth library trustee in poughkeepsie, new york, running for reelection. it was $1.84 a gallon when he took office, it is $4 now. if it continues to double, that is a big problem for everybody. >> ryan and the republicans are running into the same problem democrats had in the 2010 election, medicare. the unions are dogging him as he goes around wisconsin to town meetings. >> what is interesting is that i thought by the pulling it would be 3-1 against. it is actually neck-a
. >> house speaker john boehner in an exclusive interview with jonathan karl of abc news. do you think he is right, colby? >> $6 a gallon will hurt any elected official in the city, not just to the president. but these things fluctuate and reflected the conditions of the world. >> boehner also told to jonathan karl that maybe it is time to look at subsidies for oil companies. paul ryan said he agrees. i wonder if they will get in hot water for this, mark. >> no, i don't...
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boehner put it quite succinctly. he said the president was angry, and so angry and so hot, he was spewing coals. >> narrator: outraged, obama immediately called his own press conference. >> good evening, everybody. i just got a call about a half hour ago from speaker boehner. it is hard to understand why speaker boehner would walk away from this kind of deal, and frankly, i think that one of the questions the republican party is going to have to ask itself is, can they say yes to anything. can they say yes to anything? >> tensions were unbelievably high. you know, this is now one week from d-day. >> narrator: then it was boehner's turn. >> now let me just say that dealing with the white house is like dealing with a bowl of jell-o. they refuse to get serious about cutting spending and making the tough choices that are facing our country on entitlement reform. that's the bottom line. >> we're heading into the weekend with the best opportunity for preventing economic cataclysm on a global level from occurring... is now
boehner put it quite succinctly. he said the president was angry, and so angry and so hot, he was spewing coals. >> narrator: outraged, obama immediately called his own press conference. >> good evening, everybody. i just got a call about a half hour ago from speaker boehner. it is hard to understand why speaker boehner would walk away from this kind of deal, and frankly, i think that one of the questions the republican party is going to have to ask itself is, can they say yes to...
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i think republicans, particularly speaker boehner, don't want eight. >> colby, how did it come to this? >> they kicked it down the road on this problem, they put it off, thought it would never happen. they put it up to frighten everybody, but they cannot get themselves together on the question of tax cuts, cutting spending, entitlement reform. they cannot get it done. we are not going to have sequestration. we are going to have castration of the military, castration of domestic programs. they see it coming. and the president comes up with a proposal to do a little bit on both sides, the first word out of speaker boehner's amount is we are not going to have any type of tax increase. >> they just had one. that is what the republicans are arguing, nina. >> i think is going to happen. the question is for how long, because it will be awful. it is not just the contractors, not just the military. a is sending out social security checks on time, can you reach anybody at the irs when you have a question, major crimes being investigated, national security issues both domestically and abroad. the
i think republicans, particularly speaker boehner, don't want eight. >> colby, how did it come to this? >> they kicked it down the road on this problem, they put it off, thought it would never happen. they put it up to frighten everybody, but they cannot get themselves together on the question of tax cuts, cutting spending, entitlement reform. they cannot get it done. we are not going to have sequestration. we are going to have castration of the military, castration of domestic...
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if it was up to boehner and mcconnell they wouldn't do it. they know it's irresponsible but you have a tae party group and nobody knows what they're going to say. ironically because they talk about defending the constitution they act as if they were in england, not america. and here's the rule. if you're in england and you win the election of the house of commons on tuesday, on wednesday you're in total control of the government. you have everything. the american constitution writers said wait a minute, at any given time it will be the people elected with six-year terms in the senate, a four-year term in the white house and a two-year term in the house who will govern. so governance power now in america-- unlike england where the house of commons elected a couple months ago is in total disorder this was in america it's people elected in 2006, 2008, and 2010. the tea party types won the election decisively in 2010 but under the american constitution it makes more than one election to get the power to make the decision and that's the deliberate
if it was up to boehner and mcconnell they wouldn't do it. they know it's irresponsible but you have a tae party group and nobody knows what they're going to say. ironically because they talk about defending the constitution they act as if they were in england, not america. and here's the rule. if you're in england and you win the election of the house of commons on tuesday, on wednesday you're in total control of the government. you have everything. the american constitution writers said wait...
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boehner talk about not raising rates. so is there some sort of compromise in the difference between the term rates and revenues? >> i done think will is any question. and actually there's a lot of commonality on that issue in the senate. the fact is that folks in the upper income bracket lick me, we ought to eliminate loopholes and those kinds of things that are you really spending in another name. so we can generate more revenues from the upper income by eliminating those tax expenditures which really, again, is just spending in another name. and i think-- bses you can give us an example of how -- >> there are all kind of expenditures there is a home mortgage deduction. charitable contribution, the health care exclusion. and the best way to keep from getting into a political argument over which one is just to cap the amount that people in upper income brackets can take of any of those. let them choose which they want to take. but there's been a lot of discussion in the senate over this. and i think a lot of people have c
boehner talk about not raising rates. so is there some sort of compromise in the difference between the term rates and revenues? >> i done think will is any question. and actually there's a lot of commonality on that issue in the senate. the fact is that folks in the upper income bracket lick me, we ought to eliminate loopholes and those kinds of things that are you really spending in another name. so we can generate more revenues from the upper income by eliminating those tax...
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remember john boehner said late last week we're not simply going to extend at current levels. he didn't say how much below current levels he would take in order to get a short-term extension. my guess is it won't take all of that much to to get that extension. >> woodruff: the role of the president. how much clout does he have? >> the fact that the president's numbers have risen since mid-term elections gives him some leverage. the poll numbers that i mentioned that show the public crediting him with wanting to work with republicans gives him some leverage. and one of the reasons for those poll numbers is that deal he made in the lame duck session on tax cuts. he was seen as compromising with them on extending those bush era tax cuts. certainly it's easier to give people money through tax cuts than it is to take away in spending cuts. he won some credibility with the public there. so he has some cards had to play. he'll also by the way if there is a shutdown have some advertise kregs in exactly what parts of the government get shut down and how quickly. >> woodruff: john harwo
remember john boehner said late last week we're not simply going to extend at current levels. he didn't say how much below current levels he would take in order to get a short-term extension. my guess is it won't take all of that much to to get that extension. >> woodruff: the role of the president. how much clout does he have? >> the fact that the president's numbers have risen since mid-term elections gives him some leverage. the poll numbers that i mentioned that show the public...
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the problem that speaker john boehner and eric cantor, the leader of the republicans in the house -- gwen: who says we don't want to shut down the government. >> they don't want to shut the government down. they both know that that is a terrible trap. but they can't control their caucus. and the same kind of thing is going on in the senate. where rand paul and ted cruz and others are working on the idea of shutting the government down if obamacare, if the health care act isn't defunded. well, that really is kind of a bring it on invitation. for president obama. and he took advantage of it. i don't know why he doesn't do more news conferences. he got an infomercial out of this. gwen: except that one thing he didn't talk about that i would have expected that he would have found a way to steer it more was the state of the economy. which is the thing that's so high on people's agenda and -- >> and no one asked him about it which is pretty incredible as well. gwen: except about the fund. >> a little bit about the fed. that's true. but yeah. he start talking about the economy as well. i'm
the problem that speaker john boehner and eric cantor, the leader of the republicans in the house -- gwen: who says we don't want to shut down the government. >> they don't want to shut the government down. they both know that that is a terrible trap. but they can't control their caucus. and the same kind of thing is going on in the senate. where rand paul and ted cruz and others are working on the idea of shutting the government down if obamacare, if the health care act isn't defunded....
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but i made a deal with john boehner and i will keep this deal with john boehner, he put revenue on the table, this is where he is going. >> he probably wouldn't have been able to sell that. and that goes to another underlying problem. >> rose: on the house side. >> i think on either side. >> rose: really? >> and that goes to the aloofness or coldness between house or hill democrats in the white house. those relationships are not supergreat either. because-- there just hasn't been the emotional. obama is not that kind of guy. he is a more intro verted guy so it's not like we are blood brothers together, we played football together, we played golf together that is not there. >> rose: so the election will depend as they head to the crucial period between now and november 6s, on the debate. >> right. >> rose: can, i mean is there other than something happening, is it unlikely that something happening being an external event in the international front or b, a debate that is so one-sided which i think is unlikely to be one-sided. the best that could happen would say to me is that the person
but i made a deal with john boehner and i will keep this deal with john boehner, he put revenue on the table, this is where he is going. >> he probably wouldn't have been able to sell that. and that goes to another underlying problem. >> rose: on the house side. >> i think on either side. >> rose: really? >> and that goes to the aloofness or coldness between house or hill democrats in the white house. those relationships are not supergreat either. because-- there...
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and it is messy and kind of ug leigh but i think boehner has actually done a great thing. he promised transparency. i thought he would back off, but it's tough. he has lost some things. he lost an engine firm that will help ge which is big in ohio, his home state and stuck with the idea it will be open. more power to him t is a real legislature now. as for the cuts, i don't agree with all of them but i do think they're takinging deficit seriously. to me the most important thing that happened in the house was the republicans announcing hen they do next year's budget they are going to put entitlements on the table. that is a big step, much more than the president's willing to do. about this current continuing resolution this year, you know i'm glad they are taking the deficit seriously. i don't quite see the exit strategy here. i see them voting on this stuff. i don't actually see it getting through the senate and certainly not true the white house. so are they positioning themselves for a primes? have they fought about what the next step is going to be? i don't quite see. i
and it is messy and kind of ug leigh but i think boehner has actually done a great thing. he promised transparency. i thought he would back off, but it's tough. he has lost some things. he lost an engine firm that will help ge which is big in ohio, his home state and stuck with the idea it will be open. more power to him t is a real legislature now. as for the cuts, i don't agree with all of them but i do think they're takinging deficit seriously. to me the most important thing that happened in...
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that's where john boehner is going to say the problem is, being sure that he can secure that. i don't think there's anybody on his side right now in a leadership position who says let's close down the government and we'll pin it on barack obama, and i think they've made the effort to reach out the olive branch. >> i agree with mark. i spoke to him before the program and he said they feel, that there are good vibrations in the senate. that the senate is moving also in the direction of some deficit reduction. and so at least for this, the next few weeks -- >> lehrer: they would agree to a $4 billion cut for two weeks. >> a lot of the cuts being proposed in the initial thing are some of the things the democrats want any way, so it's an easier deal now. the bigger problem is the next deal. i would say they are less certain about where their own members are. but i strongly get the sense that the leadership and even some of the freshmen, as long as they're moving in the right direction they'll consider it a job well done. >> lehrer: new subject. the president has caught some heat be
that's where john boehner is going to say the problem is, being sure that he can secure that. i don't think there's anybody on his side right now in a leadership position who says let's close down the government and we'll pin it on barack obama, and i think they've made the effort to reach out the olive branch. >> i agree with mark. i spoke to him before the program and he said they feel, that there are good vibrations in the senate. that the senate is moving also in the direction of some...
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i thought this was a good day for john boehner who has had a lot of bad days in leading the house. this was a crase where they had a retreat last weekend. people who were there said it was a very som bell retreat and they agreed to back the speaker. that wouldn't seem remarkable except in the past sometimes they have not been willing to do that. >> ifill: here's i guess the big question, when they say they want to reach across the aisle, when they say they want to talk to democrats, they want to engage, is that real? and is it even necessary? >> well, i think-- i think they want to engage as a way-- as part of the process of achieving their ends. you know, this day andig, everybody says "let's sit and talk." at the end of the day, wield talk and you agree with me and move on to the next subject and you can agree with me as well. that's the way both parties operate. i think the democrats did it much better the last year. the democrats will got a lot of mileage about attacking the republicans for not compromising, and yet most members of the congress, democratic members, seem willing
i thought this was a good day for john boehner who has had a lot of bad days in leading the house. this was a crase where they had a retreat last weekend. people who were there said it was a very som bell retreat and they agreed to back the speaker. that wouldn't seem remarkable except in the past sometimes they have not been willing to do that. >> ifill: here's i guess the big question, when they say they want to reach across the aisle, when they say they want to talk to democrats, they...
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so they look ahead, they see 2010 and think if taxes do go up for the middle class, it will be john boehner, and the republicans to take the blame. >> well, that may be but who is it going to play that kind of bluffing game with the debt ceiling because that's when you really risk tremendous market reactions and peril. i know you talked about david petraeus, and the whole foreign policy issue last night on charlie, martha, but do you-- let me ask you again, do you take seriously the notion that john kerry could be defense secretary? >> i think that was a trial balloon. >> you do? >> i 19, clearly both of those stories were trial balloons. president obama, obviously, took it a little further, quite a bit further today talking about susan rice. it was no longer a trial balloon. but i think john kerry-- you know, is that a consolation prize? i think he's probably always wanted to be secretary of state. i'm not sure how that would go over at the pentagon. i mean, when you talk about someone going into-- as secretary of state, who maybe doesn't have the experience that some people want. i think
so they look ahead, they see 2010 and think if taxes do go up for the middle class, it will be john boehner, and the republicans to take the blame. >> well, that may be but who is it going to play that kind of bluffing game with the debt ceiling because that's when you really risk tremendous market reactions and peril. i know you talked about david petraeus, and the whole foreign policy issue last night on charlie, martha, but do you-- let me ask you again, do you take seriously the...
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and a spokesman for speaker boehner said in a statement that, "the president will have to explain why he thinks now is the appropriate time to stir up a controversial issue that sharply divides the nation." for more on this, we turn to charlie savage, domestic correspondent for the "new york times." welcome to the newshour, charlie. explain something to me. we heard jay carney today make the distinction between a legal decision that the president and attorney general made and a moral decision. what is that distinction? >> well, most of the debate over gay marriage in this country has been on the moral issue, the very basic issue: should gay people have a right to get married? but this debate has moved past that one level to a legal issue about what happens after they have already gotten married. there are now eight states plus the district attorney to either issue marriage licenses to gay couples or recognize such marriages if performed elsewhere. and so that's raised a new issue which is this: if there are two sets of married couples in a state whose marriages are lawfully recognized
and a spokesman for speaker boehner said in a statement that, "the president will have to explain why he thinks now is the appropriate time to stir up a controversial issue that sharply divides the nation." for more on this, we turn to charlie savage, domestic correspondent for the "new york times." welcome to the newshour, charlie. explain something to me. we heard jay carney today make the distinction between a legal decision that the president and attorney general made...
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we put out a letter that we delivered to the white house to speaker boehner and to leader pelosi. what we've specifically said, we're tired of the politics that kicks the can down the road. we're ready for a big grand compromise. we're ready to work together and we believe that our constituents from every district in this country sent us here to get things done and solve problems i'm proud to be part of that bipartisan group and it's a novel idea to have a freshman group do something so bold so early and i'm very excited about the prospects of coming together and finding solutions without partisan ideology and the bickering people are so tired of hearing from from washington. >> woodruff: congressman messer, do you think that's possible? we're watching the senate very divided along partisan lines over the nomination of former senator hagel to the defense secretary. do you feel as a freshman that the two parties will be able to work together and break through some of the logjam? >> well, i do think there's an opportunity to do that. i signed the same letter that was referenced ther
we put out a letter that we delivered to the white house to speaker boehner and to leader pelosi. what we've specifically said, we're tired of the politics that kicks the can down the road. we're ready for a big grand compromise. we're ready to work together and we believe that our constituents from every district in this country sent us here to get things done and solve problems i'm proud to be part of that bipartisan group and it's a novel idea to have a freshman group do something so bold so...
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but house speaker john boehner said first, the senate's democratic majority must put a proposal on the table. >> the house has a position. where's the senate democrat position? i have no idea where it is. how do you... how do you start a conversation where one house has spoken but the other house hasn't? and so, where is the starting point? >> sreenivasan: the senate majority leader harry reid dismissed boehner's challenge as nothing more than a ploy. >> i can't imagine anything so shallow. that's what we do. that's what negotiations are all about. i'm not going to negotiate with you folks here about what we want to do. that's why we need to sit down in a room with the administration there represented and the republicans both in the house and the senate and work something out. >> sreenivasan: house republicans have already voted for $61 billion in cuts for the rest of this fiscal year, but democrats have called that proposal a non-starter. the chairman of the federal reserve ben bernanke said today the republican cuts could slow the economy. he dismissed projections of 700,000 jobs los
but house speaker john boehner said first, the senate's democratic majority must put a proposal on the table. >> the house has a position. where's the senate democrat position? i have no idea where it is. how do you... how do you start a conversation where one house has spoken but the other house hasn't? and so, where is the starting point? >> sreenivasan: the senate majority leader harry reid dismissed boehner's challenge as nothing more than a ploy. >> i can't imagine...
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speaker boehner is talking about closing loopholes. other republicans are saying maybe like they're prepared to look at revenue. what are... are there concrete examples there that have the makings of some kind of deal down the road? >> very little is concrete at this point. but the movement from saying we don't want government to grow at all. the answer to this fiscal crisis is not to grow government to the position that you're hearing from leadership now which is, yes, we can have revenue. that's part of a broader deal that we're going to make. that's a substantial shift. that's not the same thing as the fight over tax rates, income tax rates. the president has said i will sign no deal that doesn't bring the income tax rates for the top earners back up to 96.5%. that's a slightly... there's a new nuance there that gives politicians wiggle room over what the definition of revenue is, but there has been movement on that. there's been even more movement. you heard a prominent republican on the sunday shows, bill kristol a prominent conse
speaker boehner is talking about closing loopholes. other republicans are saying maybe like they're prepared to look at revenue. what are... are there concrete examples there that have the makings of some kind of deal down the road? >> very little is concrete at this point. but the movement from saying we don't want government to grow at all. the answer to this fiscal crisis is not to grow government to the position that you're hearing from leadership now which is, yes, we can have...
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. >> rose: and when john boehner says that the president, when he buys this idea is practicing class warfare. >> yeah, well, the class warfare has been going on. i mean if you look at these 400 top incomes that have gone from 40 million on average per person-- per family up to 200 million, their tax rate has gone from 29 and a fraction down to 21% so there has been class warfare going on. it's just that my class is wing. my class isn't just wing, i mean we're killing them. it's been a rout. >> rose: you've got everything on the board. just look at america today in terms of the ultra rich. they have not suffered through this. listen, and incidentally, if somebody is making 5 tore 10 million dollars here, 20 million, 30 million dollars a year as a c.e.o., athlete, whatevert may be, and they're paying the normal tax rate, they are in the mid 30s or something like that, i have become convinced after talking to a lot of the superrich who talk to me about is, that the best way to do is is this minimum tax of making sure that everybody at those levels, million and over, is paying in the mid
. >> rose: and when john boehner says that the president, when he buys this idea is practicing class warfare. >> yeah, well, the class warfare has been going on. i mean if you look at these 400 top incomes that have gone from 40 million on average per person-- per family up to 200 million, their tax rate has gone from 29 and a fraction down to 21% so there has been class warfare going on. it's just that my class is wing. my class isn't just wing, i mean we're killing them. it's been...
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in july, less than three months before scheduled launch, the speaker of the house, republican john boehner, drew one more line in the sand. >> obama care is bad for america. we're going to do everything we can to make sure that it never happens. >> and yet the darn thing survived, despite the administration's own very serious mistakes. as rovner reported, obama's people naively figured republican states couldn't resist all that cash coming down from the federal government and would decide to create their own insurance exchanges and expand their medicaid programs. not so. republicans, it seems, have their principles, and health care for poor people is not one of them. ideology trumped money. republicans aside, obama care had its own built-in problem, born of original sin. and some of us have to resist the temptation to say, "we told you so"! four years ago we said the public option in health care, a kind of medicare for all, would be easier to launch and simpler to operate than the rube goldberg contraption that came to be known as obama care. rube goldberg, for those of you under a certain
in july, less than three months before scheduled launch, the speaker of the house, republican john boehner, drew one more line in the sand. >> obama care is bad for america. we're going to do everything we can to make sure that it never happens. >> and yet the darn thing survived, despite the administration's own very serious mistakes. as rovner reported, obama's people naively figured republican states couldn't resist all that cash coming down from the federal government and would...
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but as speaker john boehner noted at a gathering of religious broadcasters in tennessee sunday, democrats were unwilling to go along with that proposal. >> the house has passed legislation reflecting the will of the people that we keep the government running through october while cutting spending. the leader of the united states senate has refused to allow a vote on this legislation. so the house will pass a shorter-term bill that will also keep the government running while including reasonable spending cuts at the same time. >> reporter: the house is scheduled to begin debating and voting on the two-week spending bill tomorrow. >> woodruff: next, health care reform, and the latest move by president obama to deal with opposition to the law. the president announced today he supports a change allowing states to opt out of major requirements of the affordable care act at an earlier date. under the health care reform law, states can ask in 2017 to opt out of requirements to increase coverage, such as the individual mandate. that's three years after the insurance mandate takes effect. but pres
but as speaker john boehner noted at a gathering of religious broadcasters in tennessee sunday, democrats were unwilling to go along with that proposal. >> the house has passed legislation reflecting the will of the people that we keep the government running through october while cutting spending. the leader of the united states senate has refused to allow a vote on this legislation. so the house will pass a shorter-term bill that will also keep the government running while including...
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today speaker boehner laid out a letter that has a lot of good questions that democrats, liberals, republicans want the answers and we haven't seen them so far. so we have committed american troops, i believe for good purposes. i think the president's doing the right thing. they are performing admirably with others within the international community. but there's no clarity here. when you're asked to put lines on the line you have to put the case to the american public and this president hasn't done this in this instance. >> lehrer: are you saying he should not act until he has done certain... in other words you're not saying he did the wrong thing, you're saying he got there through a prong wrote says? >> because in 2007 he said the president shouldn't be committing... utilizing force unless there was imminent threat to america. i think he was wrong in 2007. i think he was right when he stepped in for humanitarian purposes to stop slaughtering benghazi. however the process i'm talking about is before you do that you sit with the members of congress you consult with the representatives. here it
today speaker boehner laid out a letter that has a lot of good questions that democrats, liberals, republicans want the answers and we haven't seen them so far. so we have committed american troops, i believe for good purposes. i think the president's doing the right thing. they are performing admirably with others within the international community. but there's no clarity here. when you're asked to put lines on the line you have to put the case to the american public and this president hasn't...
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and house speaker john boehner said republicans are willing to offer higher tax revenue as part of a deal. >> to show our seriousness we've put revenue on the table, as long as it's accompanied by significant spending cuts. and while we're going to continue to have revenue on the table, it's going to be incumbent for my colleagues to show the american people that we're serious about cutting spending and solving our fiscal dilemma. >> holman: on the democratic side, senate majority leader reid promised work will continue on a deal over the thanksgiving recess. he said, "we all know something has to be done." wall street took some hope from that white house meeting. the dow jones industrial average gained nearly 46 points to close at 12,588. the nasdaq rose 16 points to close at 2,853. but for the week, the dow and the nasdaq fell nearly 2%. also today, j.p. morgan chase and credit suisse agreed to pay $417 million in a federal civil settlement. they allegedly sold mortgage bonds they knew could fail before the 2008 financial crisis. it looks like twilight for twinkies. hostess brands
and house speaker john boehner said republicans are willing to offer higher tax revenue as part of a deal. >> to show our seriousness we've put revenue on the table, as long as it's accompanied by significant spending cuts. and while we're going to continue to have revenue on the table, it's going to be incumbent for my colleagues to show the american people that we're serious about cutting spending and solving our fiscal dilemma. >> holman: on the democratic side, senate majority...
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house minority leader john boehner said they would continue working to defeat the health care bill. >> they can tweak this thing, and still it's a trillion dollars they're going to spend. we've made clear that its time to scrap this bill and start over on commonsense reforms to make our current health care system better. but no, they are going to continue to ram, ram, ram this bill through the congress. every kind of scheme known to man to try and get it through the congress without a vote. >> reporter: republicans tried and failed today to block any effort to let the house pass the changes it wants without ever actually voting on the less- popular senate bill. for his part, president obama welcomed the cost figures out today. he said the health care legislation will be the "most significant" deficit reducing effort in more than 20 years. >> and this is but one virtue of a reform that will bring new accountability to the insurance industry, and greater economic security to all americans. so i urge every member of congress to consider this as they prepare for their important vote this
house minority leader john boehner said they would continue working to defeat the health care bill. >> they can tweak this thing, and still it's a trillion dollars they're going to spend. we've made clear that its time to scrap this bill and start over on commonsense reforms to make our current health care system better. but no, they are going to continue to ram, ram, ram this bill through the congress. every kind of scheme known to man to try and get it through the congress without a...
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if speaker boehner says i'll go along with that, that's where we'll start. i think the conversation is under way for a solution. >> ifill: senator durban, are you kicking the can down the road by only talking about the tax ruts and not talking about the spending cuts as well? >> let me tell you something, i was on the bowles simpson commission, i voted for it, bipartisan commission that included spending cuts as well as revenue increases. i know that to reach four or five trillion dollars in deficit reduction you need to put everything on the table. not just taxes for the wealthy. that's an important piece of it, but it isn't all of it. you need much more. >> the president said today in his news conference that he was very familiar with the literature on the overreach of presidents in their second term or their potential for overreach. do you think that's a possibility here? do you see that? we have heard, for instance, republicans say, hey, we can talk about immigration now. is it possible that some things actually are in reach? >> oh, i do think -- i think
if speaker boehner says i'll go along with that, that's where we'll start. i think the conversation is under way for a solution. >> ifill: senator durban, are you kicking the can down the road by only talking about the tax ruts and not talking about the spending cuts as well? >> let me tell you something, i was on the bowles simpson commission, i voted for it, bipartisan commission that included spending cuts as well as revenue increases. i know that to reach four or five trillion...
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. >> congressional committee voted to recommend a citation-- john boehner says will bring it to the full house next week but hasn't specified the day, what is going on. >> was's going on is a really dubious policy that opened up a lot of questions called fast and furious which basically ram guns out there with the expectation, full expectation that they would be bought by straw purchases and then end up in the custody of members and they-- gang members and then they could be traced for the prosecution of more serious crimes than just buying guns. it went awry. an agent of the alcohol tobacco firearms was killed in a shoot-out. and the question is the republicans in the house want a fuller explanation the department of justice expend-- is very much on the defensive. john edwards case they lost, the stevens case they lost. they haven't prosecuted anybody. wall street who brought the nation to its knees so, there is a certain lack of kind of support and enthusiasm for it but at the same time it smacks of election year politics, darrell issa the chairman of that committee has been dying for
. >> congressional committee voted to recommend a citation-- john boehner says will bring it to the full house next week but hasn't specified the day, what is going on. >> was's going on is a really dubious policy that opened up a lot of questions called fast and furious which basically ram guns out there with the expectation, full expectation that they would be bought by straw purchases and then end up in the custody of members and they-- gang members and then they could be traced...